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Five Beer Articles You Need To Read And Why, 5/1/15

There is a little Big Beer news today silly lawsuits and all

Even with the bad news of the last couple of days it is good to remember in the long run, we North Carolina beer geeks will eventually win. We’ve done it once with Pop The Cap. Daniel Hartis with good article to remember who far we have come and how far we still have to go and the work required to get there.

On a more serious note is this from Massachusetts. Distributors playing pay for play games. I know it seems I pick on distributors, but the way the nation’s alcohol laws are structured they hold all the advantages in their relationship with brewers, particularly smaller craft brewers. That means distributors should be held to a higher standard or the laws should be changed. As we’ve seen in NC this week, it is much harder to change the laws.

The Affordable Care Act will require nutritional information on the beer you buy in a restaurant. No one noticed until a few months ago. It is always interesting when a law that was poured over by armies of lawyers within and without the government and by advocates and opponents within and without the government can have loopholes big enough to drive a truck through. Second, anyone drinking a snifter of some 10% ABV imperial stout doesn’t really care about the nutritional information of the beer.